मां तुझे प्रणाम!

This March 6 is mother's 13th 'punya tithi'. It was daughter Neha's 12th Board exam next day. She too was disturbed and forgot her Entrance Ticket (Roll number) somewhere. Fortunately, it was found at her desk and was deposited with the Principal. Neha met her Dadi little before when she was also preparing for her medical entrance exams and sought her blessings. Neha was then one year old when I returned from Srinagar posting to Delhi and was living at Moti Bagh. Ammaji was then living with my younger brother at Dilshad garden. Many times, on my Weekly Off, I used to visit mother taking Neha in my lap, on a one-rupee DTC bus pass. We used to change bus from Connaught Place and sometime would spent some time at Jantar Mantar while returning. Few years back, I once asked Neha as what she had looked for there in the trees? Indicating to a specific tree, she immediately replied, 'Parrots.. on that tree! Where it has gone?' Her silence replied, 'Perhaps, with Dadi!'